Exodus 16:18

16:18 When ¹  they measured with an omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little lacked nothing; each one had gathered what he could eat.

Exodus 16:2

16:2 The entire company ²  of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the desert.

Colossians 1:14

1:14 in whom we have redemption, ³  the forgiveness of sins.

[16:18]  ¹ tn The preterite with the vav (ו) consecutive is subordinated here as a temporal clause.

[16:2]  ² tn Or “community” or “assembly.”

[1:14]  ³ tc διὰ τοῦ αἵματος αὐτοῦ (dia tou {aimato" autou, “through his blood”) is read at this juncture by several minuscule mss (614 630 1505 2464 al) as well as a few, mostly secondary, versional and patristic witnesses. But the reading was prompted by the parallel in Eph 1:7 where the wording is solid. If these words had been in the original of Colossians, why would scribes omit them here but not in Eph 1:7? Further, the testimony on behalf of the shorter reading is quite overwhelming: {א A B C D F G Ψ 075 0150 6 33 1739 1881 Ï latt co as well as several other versions and fathers}. The conviction that “through his blood” is not authentic in Col 1:14 is as strong as the conviction that these words are authentic in Eph 1:7.